A former
Auburn University student who was expelled from the school amid sexual assault
allegations despite the fact that a grand jury declined to prosecute him was a "a
civilian casualty in the Obama administration's war on men," Wall Street
Journal columnist James Taranto writes in a
column published Friday.

The column
tells the story of Joshua Strange, now 23, who was accused of sexual assault
after his girlfriend said she woke up to find him "forcing himself on her" in
2011. Strange said the sexual contact was consensual.

Taranto says
Strange's girlfriend did not press charges immediately, but did so months later,
after their relationship ended, when she claimed he confronted her in public
and hit her. He was charged with simple assault in that incident and felony forcible
sodomy in the earlier incident.

A grand jury
determined there was not enough evidence to prosecute him on those charges, according
to Taranto.

Despite
the fact that he was never prosecuted, Strange was expelled from Auburn
University after a tribunal Taranto argues was flawed and under guidelines he
says were dictated by an April 2011 directive from the Obama administration
threatening to pull funding from schools that don't take a hard enough line
against sexual misconduct.

University
officials declined to comment on this specific case, according to Taranto, but
did release a statement from Jon Waggoner, the interim vice president for
student affairs, saying, in part, "we feel confident that each and every
student who participates in the process is afforded notice and opportunity to
be heard on all matters pertaining to the specific case under review."